A 1 percent charge imposed on most homeowners’ policies to help the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. cover losses from the last of the 2005 hurricanes may come off the books two years early.

Despite worries of a financial burden on Florida policyholders, the Senate Budget Committee on Saturday OK’d financial changes to Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. The move is an effort to have them secured before one or more major storms hit Florida.